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Trees of Crater Lake National ParkSecond to the wonderful blue lake in the crater
of the former Mount Mazama, the most attractive feature of the park
is its heavy mantle of beautiful coniferous forests.
 Cone of a Shasta Red
Fir tree, Crater Lake National Park, photo by Robert Mutch |
Within the
park are represented more than a dozen
cone-bearing species—pines, firs, hemlocks, and others—growing in
pure bodies or mingled together, forming a confused, broken cover.
The few broad-leaf trees that climb this high in the mountains are
mostly small and shrubby, forming all underbrush in the open forests
and thickets in the moist ground along the streams.
Crater Lake National Park, on account of its
position, has the characteristic forest cover of
the higher mountains, but within a few hours' ride from any entrance
the tree species found are those common in the lower portion of
the eastern or western Oregon region [Forests of Crater Lake
National Park].
Nature Notes From Crater Lake
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F. Lyle Wynd, Vol. 1 No. 1 - July 1928
Hemlocks And Firs Of Crater Lake -
F. Lyle Wynd, Vol. 1 No. 2 - August 1928
"Sulphur" on Crater Lake -
Earl U. Homuth, Vol. 1 No. 1 - July 1928
A Migrant Tree -
Earl U. Homuth, Vol. 1 No. 1 - July 1928
Tree Curvature -
L. D. Leslie, Vol. 2 No. 1 - July 1929
Cones -
F. Lyle Wynd, Vol. 3 No. 3 - September 1930
Snow Pressure Bend -
Clyde E. Gilbert, Vol. 4 No. 3 - September 1931
The White Pine Tells His Tale -
Frank Solinsky, Vol. 4 No. 3 - September 1931
A Challenge -
Frank Solinsky, Vol. 4 No. 1 - July 1931
How To Know The Pines -
Lincoln Constance, Vol. 4 No. 2 - August 1931
More About Bugs
- Earl Homuth, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1931
Carbonized Tree
Found Within the Rim - D. S. Libbey, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1933
Wind Currents in Crater
Lake as Revealed by the Old Man of the. -
John E. Doerr, 1938
Towering Majesty -
Edwin Braun, Vol. 14 - September 1948
Three Similar Shrubs in Crater Lake
NP - Vol. 19, 1953
Wizard Island, An Index To The Past? -
John R.
Rowley and Wendell V. Showalter, 1954
Charcoal Log Reidentified -
Richard M. Brown, Vol. 21 - 1955
Crater Lake Pines -
Orville Page, Vol. 21 - 1955
Pumice Fields and a Sense of
Landscape Wonder - Ron Mastrogiuseppe, Vol. 29, 1988
A "New" Date for Mount
Mazama's Climactic Eruption - Ron Mastrogiuseppe and Steve Mark, Vol. 23, 1992
Reminders of Uncertainty
- Steve Mark and Ron Mastrogiuseppe, Vol. 25, 1994
Mimicry Among the Pines? -
Ron and Joy
Mastrogiuseppe, Vol. 26 - 1995
Ancient Remnants in Snow Crater -
Steve Mark and
Ron Mastrogiuseppe, Vol. 26 - 1995
The Old Man of the Lake
- John Salinas, Vol. 27, 1996
The True Firs of Crater Lake National Park: A Closer
Look - Eugene L. Parker, 1998
Buried Log in Rogue River
Tuffs and Agglomerates - Warren D. Smith, Vol. 7, No. 3
Related Articles, Books and Images
, Ronald and Joy Mastrogiuseppe
Plant Succession on the Pumice Desert, Crater Lake National Park, Elizabeth E. Horn, ParkScience, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 2003
Forests of Crater Lake National Park, J. F. Pernot, United States Forest Service,
Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary,
1916.
Final Report: Forest Restoration of Sun Creek, Crater Lake National Park,
James K. Agee, Terri Thomas, National Park Service, University of Washington
Biomass of Coniferous Understory Trees in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (PDF file),
James K. Agee, 1981
Effects Of Prescribed Fire In Mixed Conifer Forest, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, Ronald and Joy Mastrogiuseppe
Seasonal fire effects on mixed-conifer forest structure and pine resin properties (PDF file),
Daniel D. B. Perrakis, A thesis, 2004
Prescribed Fire Effects in the Panhandle Area, Crater Lake National Park (PDF file),
Michael Swezy, James K. Agee, 1988
Interpretation of the Crater Lake fuel Demonstration Project (PDF file),
James K. Agee and Daniel Perrakis, 2004
Initial Effects of Prescribed Fire in a Climax Pinus contorta Forest, Crater Lake N.P., Agee, James K.
Historic Botanical Photos of Crater Lake National Park
Research bibliography:
botanical
Related Crater Lake News
Tourists watch fire burn at Crater Lake -
August 7, 2006
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